Anne McKeage is the Archivist for Hamilton Health Sciences and for McMaster's Faculty of Health Sciences. She has been in charge of collecting the records of these two institutions for the past 20 years. She is also the History of Health and Medicine Librarian in the Health Sciences Library at McMaster. Anne graduated from McMaster with an Honours B.A. in History. She worked in a variety of positions at the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry Heritage Museum, the National Museums Library Directorate and Dundurn Castle before completing her Masters of Library and Information Science at what was then called the University of Western Ontario. Her passion for all things historical will be evident in her talk.
Invited Talk: Thanks for the Memory: the role of the Library in building and maintaining institutional archives
Date: Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm
Location: Ballroom East & Centre
Alan Taniguchi, MD, CCFP, FCFP, is a palliative care consultant physician and an assistant clinical professor and the palliative care residency program director in McMaster's department of family medicine. He is known to colleagues and students in McMaster health sciences as a leader and visionary in palliative care whose dedication is enhancing education and ultimately improving patient services. In 2008, he won the John C. Sibley award for his outstanding contributions to the education of health professionals and in 2011 the Undergraduate MD program Outstanding Preceptor Award - Family Medicine. He has spoken and written extensively on the needs for health care practitioners and their patients to discuss and plan for end of life and palliative care.
Invited Talk: End of Life Planning: Beyond the DNR order
Date: Thursday, June 14, 2012
Time: 9:30am - 10:30am
Location: Ballroom East & Centre
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Here’s your chance to catch up on all the engaging talks and intriguing presentations we enjoyed at CHLA/ABSC 2012: slides from our speakers, papers and posters are now mounted on the conference website under Papers, Posters and Talks.
